-={Bau de Brinquedos}=-: Fwd: Help keep the Polar Bear Seas for polar bears, not polluters

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From: NRDC - Frances Beinecke <biogemsdefenders@savebiogems.org>
Date: 2012/1/25
Subject: Help keep the Polar Bear Seas for polar bears, not polluters

Dear Anne,

The Polar Bear Seas are no place
for oil drilling
Polar Bears

The Obama Administration has proposed a 5-Year Offshore Drilling Program that would open up Alaska's Polar Bear Seas to oil drilling. Tell the Administration to leave the Arctic to the polar bears, not polluters!

President Obama may have rejected the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, but our fight with Big Oil is just heating up -- and the Administration is not always on the right side.

The Interior Department has just proposed a 5-Year Offshore Drilling Program that would open up both of Alaska's Polar Bear Seas -- the Chukchi and the Beaufort -- to oil drilling.

Tell the Obama Administration to put the Polar Bear Seas off-limits to the oil giants.

These two seas are home to more than half of America's polar bears as well as Pacific walrus, endangered bowhead whales, beluga whales and ringed seals.

The proposed development area includes sensitive waters off the coast of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge -- the polar bear's favorite onshore birthing ground in Alaska.

An oil spill in this rich marine life habitat would be devastating.

Tell the Obama Administration that opening up the Polar Bear Seas to oil development would be a disastrous mistake.

The Coast Guard has said that it has "zero" spill-response capability in this remote and forbidding environment. And the oil industry has no proven method for cleaning up oil in ice-filled waters.

If there is a blowout, oil companies could have to contend with 20-foot seas, gale-force winds, protracted darkness and below-zero temperatures -- with no relief in sight.

You and I haven't worked to save one of our planet's last truly wild places only to see it destroyed by Big Oil.

Take action right now. Tell the Obama Administration that the Polar Bear Seas are no place for oil drilling.

Sincerely,

Frances Beinecke
President
Natural Resources Defense Council

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